It was only 1/2 built when I took the photo….it’s in an ornamental cherry tree…now there are eggs, but it’s just high enough I can’t see how many…hope she stays dry in all this rain…she’s a good mama staying on the nest…

Good question, Bill. My hunch is that the robin wins on the widespread-habitat-and-abundance scales. Just a hunch, though. Other abundant birds, like starlings, don’t nest in the forest (robins do) or they don’t nest in Alaska (robins do). Hmmmm.

Lisa, I lost your comment about “the clue that did it.” ! It was accidentally marked as a spam comment. Yikes! Sometimes computers think too much. I think this has happened to one or two comments from others in the past.

We had a successful robin nest in the top of our California Fan Palm last summer. We didn’t even know she was up there as she built it, but she did a great job and 3 young robins fledged, sliding down the fronds into the bushes in the garden. We didn’t know they nested in palms, but there ya’ go . . . So far no sign of a nest this year.